Top House Republican Falsely Claims Gun Control Doesn’t Work So GOP Won’t Act To Stop Mass Shootings

The #2 Republican within the Home, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), advised reporters that gun management doesn’t work, Republicans gained’t be taking over gun laws.

CNN’s Manu Raju tweeted:

Steve Scalise, No. 2 in Home, alerts no new motion on weapons regardless of mass shootings “Congress handed extra gun management. I opposed it as a result of I knew it would not clear up the issue. It simply makes it more durable for law-abiding residents to get weapons to defend themselves,” he advised @MZanona

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) Might 8, 2023

Steve Scalise was shot in 2017 at a follow for the congressional baseball recreation, however not even being a sufferer of gun violence has deterred him from spreading the lies and misinformation of the NRA.

Based on Scientific American, the science on the affect of gun legal guidelines reveals that Rep. Scalise is unsuitable, “Science factors to legal guidelines that may work to cut back shootings, to decrease dying. Among the many easiest could be higher allowing legal guidelines with fewer loopholes. When Missouri repealed its allow legislation, gun-related killings elevated by 25 p.c. One other could be to ban people who find themselves convicted of violent crime from shopping for a gun. In California, earlier than the state handed such a legislation, folks convicted of crimes have been nearly 30 p.c extra more likely to be arrested once more for a gun or violent crime than those that, after the legislation, couldn’t purchase a gun.”

Science exhibits that legal guidelines which can be supposed to cut back shootings work. There’s a clear distinction between legal guidelines to maintain weapons out of the arms of potential mass shooters, and ‘banning weapons.’

Republicans and the NRA all the time take the argument to the acute and body any try and do one thing about gun violence as ‘banning weapons,’ however there’s a complete coverage panorama obtainable between the 2 extremes of let’s let everybody has as many weapons as they need all the time, and let’s take away all the weapons.

The overwhelming majority of People are within the center, and so they need the killings to cease.

The message being despatched by Steve Scalise is that Republicans are going to proceed to allow mass shooters and never carry a finger to make the bloodshed cease.

Jason is the managing editor. He’s additionally a White Home Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Diploma in Political Science. His graduate work centered on public coverage, with a specialization in social reform actions.

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